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The only real caveat to interoperability between vintage Macs and everything else, is resource forks. These are bits of classic MacOS (pre OS X) data files and applications. Only pre-OS X MacOS versions use them, so any time a file from a vintage Mac to a newer one (or DOS, Windows, or Linux) is...

Office 98 is a pretty solid product, while 2001 began the introduction of visual fluff and extraneous features - though it is more widely compatible with later G3 systems. By that point, however, it was trending away from the simplicity which for me is the most attractive aspect of putting...

Mostly it's just better familiarity, since Word 6 was the software we used throughout the university - particularly the computer labs and drop-ins. Helping students overcome problems using it meant it stuck in mind! I prefer Word 5, though 6 is a bit more consistent with document formatting...

I've been using mostly a PowerBook 170, 180 and 5300cs as practical 'distraction free' platforms for a few years now - along with some DOS systems. They provide excellent software tools because in their day, these were not greatly capable machines anyway, and the lack of external intrusions has...

Though I have a PowerBook 170 in front of me today, on which I plan to complete a writing project later, the computer I am doing battle with is not a Mac but a Tandy. A Model 600 in fact - a machine which dates from 1985, and not highly thought of then, let alone now. This is largely due to the...

No it doesn't. The admins are responsible for their decisions in hosting, nobody else. A poor host is a poor choice. Anyway, I'm done. 68Kmla will be fine, or not. I neither care nor am invested in it. It works, or it doesn't, and members will be tolerant of it or not. It was - and may yet be -...

I'm sorry but that does rather miss the real point. The vast majority of internet resources don't go down and vanish, then reappear sometime later. The problem here is absolutely the 68Kmla admin/owners, because it's their choice of how, who and why the site is hosted. In the 3-4 years of TD...

This, absolutely. It makes Discord pretty much useless for my purposes and needs - though I appreciate that's only important to me, not everyone or even anyone else. I use TD as a resource to research and keep track of useful information/ideas/snippets, and Discord's social media model is not...

Also the forums were (and are) accessible as normal.

I'm able to access it at present. On edit: There is a post on the home page, dated March 6 2026, that the FTP server is 'currently offline', but 'may return in the future'.

Surely this indicates the issue is in the contact face between the roller and the ball? Clearly the roller in itself is working, but if that contact face has little or no friction, is a fraction too small in diameter due to wear/shrinkage, is slightly misaligned with the pin sitting too low in...

I looked around for a while to get a 17-inch G4 iMac in reasonable condition, and finally found a 1.25 model selling pretty cheaply due to a hard drive problem. It would boot, but only after a lengthy delay during which the drive would make long beeping noises. I replaced the drive with an SSD...

Not that it helps in this instance, but I tried an IDE-SD card adapter (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08SK4G7RP?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_4) in my Lombard, after an IDE-CF adapter which had worked perfectly in a Wallstreet totally failed. The SD adapter has worked perfectly with...

I'm rather leaning towards 'no', but mostly because it feels like a move to fix the wrong problem. The direction really needs to be about encouraging and strengthening participation, and it's hard to see how slimming the 'management' team like this would do that. In fact I also think the roles...

Well, not really, because it depends on where the FO developer is located. Steve can file anything his local state and/or federal law allows, but his reach through a US court is almost certainly limited at most to the US, and possibly just to his home state. An injunction to prevent FO sales or...

My understanding of the FloppyEmu licence in 2012 was that it was released for non-commercial uses - meaning, well, exactly that - and then only providing proper attribution is made. I don't really see much in the way of 'proper attribution' and there is a whole other set of potential questions...

Given many members here create commercial and non-commercial modern solutions to retro electronics problems and uses, I can't say I'm surprised this was a bit of a touch paper! That said, I do think it's a dangerous precedent to argue that because someone in China rips off a commercial product...

My recollection of my Mac mini 1.42 is that it runs native OS9 (installed via the Mac9Lives CD) pretty well, but is a bit sluggish in Classic mode in OSX. It seemed mostly a matter of the slow HD, which hampers OSX rather more than it seems to slow OS9. I haven't used it in a while, but native...

There's not a lot of love shown for the Performa 630, but it's a solid and reliable workhorse. Mine is my only permanently set up vintage system, and I use it regularly. Other than a CF replacement for the HD, and an ethernet card, it's exactly as it came from the factory. It does rather lack...

If it helps, this is a shot of my original 1400 power adapter: I've used this same adapter with a variety of PowerBooks, from the 1400 to a G3 Clamshell. In that age range, the only PB it doesn't fit is the 190/5300.